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| Ole, At its simplest, Mpanel is a compact hardware controller for aircraft radio, autopilot, gear and flap functions. Over the course of a dozen sample flights, M Panel operated my stock Cessnas and 747s fine, as well as my F1 Skyhawk. Though he gushed over the flap control & display as well as the landing gear control & display, my newly chatty Mr. Smith had little interest in Mpanel's autopilot functions. "I'm a pilot, not an autopilot," he barked. Then a thought crossed his face, "Except for looking at the Flight director switch, or possibly the altitude hold switch, or may the airspeed hold switch...." his voiced trailed off into a mumble. Then he came back to reality when he looked at the radio functions. "I overlook COM except in case of emergencies, and Mpanel lets a pilot in trouble dial in the emergency frequency in a snap, or even to keep it on standby if they anticipate an engine fire or something like that." "As for navigation and ILS, I like Mpanel's ability to let my students manage NAVs, DMEs and ADF as they would in a real stack. Plus the ability to dial in the NAV1OBS and NAV2OBS headings when they're needed is super." He pointed to the "000" value in the upper right of a DME view to show me where the associated OBS heading was displayed. No more CRTL-SHIFT-D to know if I'm spot on the runway heading or so much as a degree off!  
Then Smitty excused himself to go and buy a doctor an anniversary present or something. Strange fellows.... Pros - Highly functional - a complete COM-NAV-ADF-DME-XPDR and autopilot package in one box. Cons - Slight cosmetic build / design flaws detract somewhat. The manual takes several reads to get a handle on the operations. Doesn't look like "real aircraft controls." The software that interfaces with FSUIPC could stand continued work.
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- i7-920 airclocked to 166, Vista 64 Prem, GTX 260, 9GB 1300 DRAM, 1TB OS / 200GB s/s FSX drive
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| I've managed some elementary keymapping with M-Panel, so when I trip the red 4-way switch into User mode, the 5 black sub-mode buttons on the left side will emit SHIFT-CRTL-1 through SHIFT-CRTL-5, giving me all FSFS2009 commands via the panel. (While in User mode, the rotary encoder controls pilot eye level up/down & reset, and the Square White Button starts & stops pushback.) Since I have a gear selector with my Saitek switch panel, I hope to take enough time with FSUIPC and turn the M-Panel gear toggle into a fuel cutoff switch. (That is, if FUEL_SELECTOR_OFF does what I think....) A nice little side to the programming is that I replaced the normal "connecting to FSX" marquee messages mainly to prove to myself that I was on the right track at times. Pardon the bad lighting photos. 
(I'll likely change that 2nd block of text to include a Burma Shave reference - the kids won't understand.) Since Xmas is still aways off, do note that if you're interested in M-Panel - yet you like to fly heavies - VRInsight's MCP Combo Panel does all of this with plenty of buttons and switches and encoders galore. I just went the cheap route.
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- i7-920 airclocked to 166, Vista 64 Prem, GTX 260, 9GB 1300 DRAM, 1TB OS / 200GB s/s FSX drive
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| I was this >< close to pulling the trigger on the microProPit, but a malware infestation of the missus' pc gave me the opportunity to claim it for a few weeks (post-cleanup) so I'm running Plan-G in a Simconnect setup and using its GPS panel as a poor man's substitute. If this works out well, I may rebuild an old junker box to run it on a permanent basis and take a look at the microJetPit for (a) jet panels when I'm in a jet, and (b) to host the stock GPS panel and tach/fuel gauges when I'm in a prop. Pity no PNW this Xmas....
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- i7-920 airclocked to 166, Vista 64 Prem, GTX 260, 9GB 1300 DRAM, 1TB OS / 200GB s/s FSX drive
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Fenric (12/20/2009)
I was this >< close to pulling the trigger on the microProPit, but a malware infestation of the missus' pc gave me the opportunity to claim it for a few weeks (post-cleanup) so I'm running Plan-G in a Simconnect setup and using its GPS panel as a poor man's substitute. If this works out well, I may rebuild an old junker box to run it on a permanent basis and take a look at the microJetPit for (a) jet panels when I'm in a jet, and (b) to host the stock GPS panel and tach/fuel gauges when I'm in a prop. Pity no PNW this Xmas.... Uuhhh can you repeat that in simple English for this simple Englishman Ta muchly Biggles
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What I want for Xmas is to be able to land properly after using this nice looking and sounding program (FS Flying School 2010) when my keys arrive  A member on the Just Flight forums recommended it, as I keep bursting tyres!
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Bruce E (12/23/2009)
Uuhhh can you repeat that in simple English for this simple Englishman Ta muchly Biggles 1. After cleaning up a mess that the cook made with her laptop, I found a way to (inexpensively) duplicate the functionality of a specialized 425USD device. 2. However I'm still easily distracted by new and shiny things. 3. Too bad PNW didn't make it out by Xmas. [meh] Happy Happy....
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- i7-920 airclocked to 166, Vista 64 Prem, GTX 260, 9GB 1300 DRAM, 1TB OS / 200GB s/s FSX drive
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